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GHSA-4F44-P79Q-6VJ4

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-09-19 03:32 – Updated: 2026-09-19 03:32

Details

The Better Messages – Chat Rooms, Group Chat, Private Messages & AI Chat Bots plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 2.15.33. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with custom-level access and above, to access the full message transcript, thread metadata, and user data of any chat-room thread without authentication. This is only exploitable when the chat room's only_joined_can_read setting retains its default value of '0'.

Severity

6.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

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CVE-2026-89334 (GCVE-0-2026-89334)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-19 02:27 – Updated: 2026-09-19 02:27

Title

Better Messages <= 2.15.33 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Custom+) Chat-Room Transcript Disclosure via '/thread/<id>' REST Endpoint

Summary

Severity

6.5 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CWE

CWE-862 - Missing Authorization

Assigner

Wordfence mitre root

References

9 references

URL	Tags
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabil…
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bp-bet…
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bp-bet…
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bp-bet…
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bp-bet…
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bp-bet…
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bp-bet…
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bp-bet…
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
wordplus	Better Messages – Chat Rooms, Group Chat, Private Messages & AI Chat Bots	Affected: 0 , ≤ 2.15.33 (semver)

Credits

Supakiad S. (m3ez)

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Nomenclature

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